Concentration Series

For this project, the assignment was to make a series of two sculptures with one theme. For my theme, I chose animals staring at nature. For my first concentration, the subject was a wolf lying by a river. Around the wolf were flowers and patterns were across his back. For my second concentration, the subject was a mountain goat on rocks above a bed of water. The mountain goat is looking at the mountain backdrop I made. I made the wolf by covering aluminum foil in sculpey and after cooking it, I made zentangle like patterns on his body. For the flowers and stream around him, I used sculpey and painted foam board for the actual base. For the second concentration with the goat, I used wool and paper to create the goat and wrapped aluminum foil around crumpled papers to make bigger rocks. I also painted mountains in the background with snow and painted the ground below them blue to represent water.

I chose this theme because animals are my favorite things to sculpt and I thought that one amazing thing staring at another was a cool idea. I aso liked the amount of freedom I had with this theme because there are so many different things in nature and so many different animals. In my first project, one of my main flaws was the fact that the wolf had no texture, so in the second project, I used wool to make it first of all, more realistic and second of all, to create texture.

In the second concentration, I used a high horizon line in the back of my piece. I did this because I wanted to create the effect of the goats really being a part of the piece and not the tallest thing. I did the opposite in my first concentration by making the wolf the biggest and tallest thing in the sculpture and this didn't turn out a well as the high horizon line. However, it did make the wolf the main focus of the piece which I think worked out well. The first project evolved from a wolf on a plain background to a patterned wolf with many flowers surrounding him to enhance the piece. In the second concentration, I had the idea of adding more texture with wool and painting the back of the sculpture as well. Overall, the first concentration wasn't my best work but I was happy with the second concentration.